Supernatural premiered!!
So I get home after a three hour math class (during which we took our first exam, and I am 90% sure I knocked it out of the park) all prepared to watch the premed episode of Supernatural. As I'm rewinding the tape I literally start jumping up and down and dancing.
Only to push play and discover that I had accidentally taped Smallville. Because I haven't at all been up on my Supernatural news, and apparently the time slot changed. *sad face* I literally fell on my knees and moaned, lol.
So I then proceeded to mope around the house and tell everyone about the injustice of the world, and how I may have to wait a whole two days to see the episode, or however long it takes for someone to rip it.
Turns out my moaning pays off, because as soon as I tell my brother he's like 'what episode is it?' I tell him, and he's like 'I'll look for it.' So no longer than an hour later he comes in my room, brandishing his portable flash drive like it's the holy grail and says ever so casually 'Got it.' I then almost pee myself. And it's good quality and everything. I love Josh and his internet -fu. :)
And my reaction is as follows (bitching and squeeing)..
Things I Liked
-As soon as Costello or whatever his name is (shut up, I'm horrible with names and my squeeing made me miss a lot of things) opened his mouth I liked him, just from his manner of speaking, just the way he phrased his sentences.
-'What the hell is that?' 'I told you to take care of her, not douche her up.' So Dean. :)
-'You're invited too, Grumpy.' 'You are not invited!'
-'You really don't think you deserve to be saved?'
-God. Literally. Finally. It's called balance, dude; if you're gonna have supernatural evil you gotta have supernatural good too. It took three seasons, but I'm glad we're finally getting to see the other end of the spectrum. (Let's hope a happy balance is struck and there's mythology that sticks and makes sense beyond 'Then Jesus fixed everything. The end.')
-That hand print, and the idea of Dean being literally plucked out of hell. Shit, that was cool.
-The reveal of Sam's cool power.
-Psychic Lady picking up Bobby when she hugged him. Cute. :)
-The fact that this gave me pot bunnies of SPN Apocalypse fic, where Dean wakes up and crawls out of his grave and is all 'wtf, zombies?'
-Bobby testing Dean, with the holy water and stuff. <333
-'Are you guys.. together?" I lol'ed.
-Dean climbing out of his grave. Ho-lee sheit.
-Dean's accountant line.
-Also, 'This is just a vessel.'
-Dean being recruited from hell. Dean maybe having an epic destiny or his own, to the point of Sam and all his specialness maybe being a red herring. Show, you surprise me. I like that. :)
Things I Didn't Exactly Like..
-The way Supernatural seems to take place in some sort of alternate reality where only white people exist. Just.. dude. Seriously. Throw a black person on there, an asain guy, something, because this crazy white washed world is seriously starting to dampen my love of this show. Along with..
-The gender issues the show may or may not have. I like to play a little game when I watch Supernatural - whenever a female character shows up, I like to try to guess within 5 seconds if she'll be a love interest, victim, or low level evil being who gets called a bitch and a slut before she dies in a gratuituosly gruesome manner. Since it's Supernatural, the three of those options usually overlap. (Ok, I realize that's not exactly a fair way of looking it.)
-Lilith being a lame ass villain. Maybe it was the writer's strike, I don't know, but the entire Lilith thing just fizzled out and died. Just having previously read up on her history before I even knew she was gonna be on the show, I knew Lilith could've been a kick ass foe. But we have her running and hiding out of fear of Sam's Awesome Power and that basically being it. Like, seriously dude? That's it? That has got to be the lamest villain storyline in the history of ever. And it sucks, because you know I was looking forward to having a kickass female baddie. I was even willing to overlook the vastly overdone evil little girl angle (because that hasn't been done in every fairly recent horro movie, ever).
When I still thought that angel dude was gonna be a baddie, I was kind of disappointed because I wasn't ready to let go of my hope for an adeqaute female baddie. So then I thought very briefly and bitterly that maybe they abandoned the Lilith thing partly cause people were bitching (not completely without reason) about all of the gender-specific insults being thrown at her, so the writers figured hey, we'll just pluck her off altogether, problem solved? I hope I'm wrong. I most likely am, as I am just being cynical because I'm pissed that there's no black or asian or middle eastern or any non-white people (like, at all) on my favorite show. This is going to be taken the wrong way, but I don't care how it sounds: I am so tired of looking at white people on this damn show. And before anyone cried racist, let me clarify: it just isn't realistic to me. What I've always really enjoyed about Supernatural is that, even though sch crazy supernatural stuff was going down, it was going down in a world that was dangerously close to our own (should we just perhaps dig a lile deeper, look a little closer). What the fuck sort of bizarro America does this show take place where Sam and Dean traverse all over the gorram country and see only a small handful of minorities in an entire season? Fail.
- Sam's nasty looking hair. Petty, yes, I admit that. I was really hoping Dean would open the door and Sam would have shaved his head out of grief or having finally looked in a mirror, but it seems we're stuck with random shots of his godawful middle part (which will look ok one minute, but then the camera will show him again and you're like wtf, comb that shit right.')
-Sam's nasty looking hair and the fact that I'm kind of unimpressed with what happened to him after Dean died. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but that wasn't it.
-Sam and Ruby started sleeping together then? Lol, wtf. I swear I read that fic before. Hurt/comfort Sam/Ruby post S3 Finale please r and r.
I dislike it when any ship in any medium is confirmed, though, because I think romance in any book or tv show or anything should be mostly hinted at, alluded to, and not written in stone (in most cases, anyway). But that's probably because I hate for any shippers to be right because there's always fandom wank - see {admittedly crappy) Harry Potter epilogue and the resulting heavy cloud of smug that consumed parts of the Harry Potter fandom that has still not fully lifted.
-Sam didn't seem like Sam to me. For a while I kept expecting him to reveal he was possesed or something. I don't know. I can't put my finger on it so I'll drop it for now. But it was weird.
-Did I mention the whole 'no minorities anywhere ever ever ever' thing? Oh, I did. Well yeah. It soured the hell out of this show for me, and I'm mad because I wanted to love it completely like I used to (before I noticed) but you can't really un-notice something that's as glaring as Supernatural's race issues (hereafter known as Supernatural's Glaring Race Issues, because if anything deserves some capitol letters it's that). Just.. It's so.. Glaring. It looks weird. I can't be the only one who sees this. How the hell the people who make the show don't seem to notice is beyond me. *heavy sigh*
-Sam's music taste. I always suspected, but now I know for sure: it sucks. :)
-Not specifically related to Supernatural, but why are psychics never men? I don't think I've ever once seen a male psychic. (Besides the one growing in my head.) It's always a boho chick with dark hair.
-The fact that Psychic Lady went blind messing around with that shit. I mean, I know she kept on going on her own accord, but still. I felt so bad for her. The fact that Sam and Dean didn't appear to stick around long enough to be all 'oh hey, sorry you lost your eyesight because of us, can we fluff your pillow or something?' irked me. I know you got stuff on your plate, but that doesn't seem very courteous. In real life, I don't think I'd associate with the Winchesters because the fact of the matter is if you're not family you're in the way, your ass is going to get in the line of fire and chances are they'll be too busy saving each other's asses and making deals with demons to notice for too long. Not that I'm knocking them for that; family should come first. But they take that to a whole new level, you know?
In The Middle
--'I just got back from the dead. But ooh look, boobies!' First - Ok, you know for sure it's really Dean. *fond smile* Then - Ok, seriously dude? Is now the best time? Put in the bag and get the hell outta dodge.
-Speaking of, why was that place empty? Oh, the owners probably died cause of whathisface and his powerful angel mojo.
- Why would Bobby think it was a prank call? No one else would know about Dean, presumably, except Sam, so I don't get it.
-That overly dramatic slapping noise when Dean slapped demon lady. Twice. Which, yeah, seemed kind of gratuitous and meant for shock value, so it kind of left a bad taste in my mouth.
-The lies. It's the first episode and they're both already lying to each other. Just.. That's really dumb. Shouldn't they all be putting all of their cards on the table? Not starting things off with lies? No, let's lie, and put off telling the truth. I'm sure that'll work out great.
-The shot with the lightning and for a moment you see the angel dude's wings. Kind of cool, kind of cheesy.
Speculation
-I bet Sam can totally see angel dude's true form. :)
-Ok, so the angel guy doesn't appear to be a villain. Then who the hell is? *excited to find out*
-Also, back to the 'This is just a vessel' line and how someone prayed for that. They probably didn't pray so literally, but I bet there are people out there who know all about the good side, who know things Sam and Dean don't and they've been getting brushed aside as religious fanatics and the like. I want the most bad ass, knowledgeable person on the subject to be a little old lady on a bench with a battered bible or something.
So this episode left me feeling frustrated, bitter, annoyed, discontent, happy, wibbly, intrigued, and excited.
Oh, Supernatural, what a complex relationship we have.
So that was my squeeing and bitching. Maybe later, after another viewing, I can post something calm and coherent and less flaily and ditzy (because my show! It's back! It's good again!), but there you have it. :) Also, since I downloaded the episode there was, sadly, no preview for next week's ep. I guess that's a good thing though, so I won't spend the entire week speculating like crazy and being ridiculously excited?
But in real life news, Jasmine and I put up flyers seeking band members for our wizard rock outfit and she said she went to the store earlier and all the numbers are gone already! *dances excitedly*